[lbo-talk] counting to 200 -- how about 500

[Miles Jackson]

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> Carrol:
>
> Joanna is probably correct here, but still I think it best for political
> reasons always to emphasize systemic elements rather than individual
> criminality.
>
>
> [WS:] Why?  That takes the crooks that perpetuate the system off the hook.
> The crooks' strategy has always been hiding behind the smoke and mirrors of
> abstractions: religion, ideology, the market, or the system.  The trick is
> to drag them from behind that veil of smoke and mirrors to the daylight and
> effectively dispose of them - by any means necessary.
>
> Wojtek
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>
>   
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss: you dispose of any capitalist 
crooks, social relations in a capitalist system will happily replace 
them with others who fulfill the same criminal functions.  We can't 
solve the problem by lining a few bad apples up against the wall, 
however cathartic that may be.

Miles